Tonight we're going to look at these
seven vows of wrath. Seven vows of wrath. And I'll
read this chapter and then we'll go back down through it and make
mention of a few things. And I heard a great voice out
of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways and pour
out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth. And the first
went out and poured out his vial upon the earth and there fell
a noisome and a grievous sore upon the men which had the mark
of the beast and upon them which worshiped his image. And the
second angel poured out his vial upon the sea and it became as
the blood of a dead man. And every living soul died in
the sea. And the third angel poured out
his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters, and they
became blood. And I heard the angel of the
waters say, Thou are righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast,
and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus. For they have shed
the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood
to drink, for they are worthy. And I heard another out of the
altar say, even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous
are thy judgments. And the fourth angel poured out
his vial upon the son, and power was given unto him to scorch
men with fire. And the men were scorched with
great heat and blasphemed the name of God, which passed power
over these plagues, and they repented not to give him glory. And the fifth angel poured out
his vial upon the seat of the beast, and his kingdom was full
of darkness. And they gnawed their tongues
for pain, and blasphemed the God of heaven because of their
pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds. And the sixth
angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates, and
the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of
the east might be prepared. And I saw three unclean spirits,
like frogs, come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the
mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.
For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles which go forth
unto the kings of the earth. And the whole world gathered
together, to them to battle of that great day of God Almighty. Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed
is he that watcheth and keepeth his garment, lest he walk naked
and they see his shame. And he gathered them into a place
called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon. And the seventh angel poured
out his vial into the air and there came a great voice out
of the temple of heaven from the throne saying, it is done. And there were voices, and thunders,
and lightnings. And there was such a great earthquake,
such as not were since men were upon the earth. So mighty an
earthquake, and so great. And the great city was divided
into three parts. And the cities of the nations
fell, and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to
give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his
wrath. And every island fled away, and
the mountains were not found. And there fell upon men a great
hell out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent.
And men blasphemed God because of the plague of hell, for the
plague thereof was exceeding great. You remember we said last
week that history is God's story, it's His story. And in the history
of the world, God's final wrath is revealed over and over and
over upon men. Strikes one, then it strikes
another. And he pours his wrath out upon the impenitent. We read
here tonight how what he did, in three different times, it
says the men blasphemed God, refused to give him the glory.
No matter what he did to them, they just gnashed their tongues
at God, gritted their teeth at God, and said, we don't want,
we just despise him for what he's done to us. We hate him
for the plagues that he sent our way. And he pours his wrath
upon these impenitent. They just absolutely have no
reason to give him the glory. And the only way in the world,
and I say this with all, try with as much humility as I'm
able, that until God gives a man a new nature and gives him a
new heart, he'll always be against God. And I tell you, these men, these
men are just, you know, when they perish, their nature's not
gonna change. They're not gonna change. And
we'll see that. And these are the ones that we're
talking about here who blaspheme God. They still turn, refuse
to give Him the glory and repent not of their deeds. These are
the ones that God sends a strong delusion that they should believe
a lie and be damned. These are the ones in Romans
chapter 1 that God gave up. You know, there's a multitude
of people. When God gives up on you, there's just no... You
imagine God, who is full of mercy. God, who is full of grace. God,
who is full of pity. God, who himself is love. When
God looks at a man and says, I give up. I give up. And when God gives up, they're
not gonna give him the glory. They're gonna blaspheme him.
They're gonna do those things. Now you remember in Revelation
8, there was those seven angels, seven angels back there. And
those seven angels had trumpets to blow. They all blew a trumpet,
and the trumpet had a different effect upon the earth, just like
these vessels, angels of wrath, these vows of wrath, and these
seven angels with their vows. But remember, the trumpet's warned, and the bowls are filled with
wrath. Warn you, you don't listen, then wrath is coming, wrath is
coming. And that's why they run parallel.
You know, and they both, the trumpets and the bowls of wrath,
the seven angels with the seven trumpets, and the seven angels
with the bowls of wrath, they cover the dispensation from the
time Christ comes Christ is crucified and Christ ascends back to glory
and then he comes in judgment. He comes to sit down in judgment.
And let me give you some reasons why they run parallel. In the
vision of the bowls, just like the trumpets, with an awful judgment
scene. When they end, there's an awful
judgment scene where God sends this great earthquake and the
whole earth, mountains flee away, the islands are gone, men are
destroyed, and that's it. That's it. And that's the way
it was in the trumpets. He says, they brought him and
God poured out the fierceness of the wine of his wrath on him
at the end of the blowing of those trumpets. And the first
big six bowls of these wrath being poured out, they refer
to a series of happenings that precede the final judgment of
God Almighty. And the bowls were poured out
upon the men who had the mark of the beast, that's what he
says. Look back over here in chapter 15 in verse one. I saw another sign in heaven,
great and marvelous, seven angels having the seven last flags.
For in them, in these seven last flags is filled up the wrath
of God. Well, who's this gonna happen
to? I saw, as it were, a sea of glass mingled with fire, and
them that had gotten the victory over the beast, over his image,
over his mark, and over the number of his name. And so what we have
here is the same people, mentioned again, in this chapter 16. And in the fifth vision of John,
we have described the same forces of evil as in the fourth. We
have the dragon mentioned here, we have the beast mentioned here
coming out of the sea, we have the beast mentioned coming out
of the earth, and the vision of the trumpets, the same absolute
people are mentioned. The dragon, The beast that comes
out of the sea and the beast that comes up out of the earth.
And they do the same thing here. Look there in verse 13 here of
Revelation 16. Look what it says here. And I
saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of
the dragon. Remember that dragon that was
sitting there waiting for Christ to be born to devour him? And
out of the mouth of the beast. And out of the mouth of the false
prophet. These all were mentioned in those trumpets. All of them
were mentioned. And I just want you to look at
this first bowl. You know, the bowls or vials
are called bowls. They're actually bowls. I looked
it up the other day and it means bowls. But it talks about a vial
and how fast it can be poured out. How fast it can be poured
out. And John started here when he says in verse one, I heard
a great voice out of the temple. God speaking. This is the voice
of God. This is the voice of the Almighty
God. And it's a loud voice. Great voice, loud voice. Come
up out of that temple. And the Lord's filled with anger
here. He says, go now, go. Go your ways. He said to those
seven angels, go your ways. And pour out the vows of the
wrath of God. Now listen to this, the wrath
of God upon the earth. upon the earth. Oh, my. And when you look at these things
that happen, they resemble the plagues of Egypt, and the bowls
of wrath, and the plagues of these bowls. We'll show you the
things that happened in, you go back and read Exodus 7 through
11, and you look at those seven plagues that God poured out on
Egypt. And one was that He turned the rivers into blood. Another
one was that he said, take ashes and throw them in the air. And
when he came back, everybody was filled with balls and brains
and their bodies was covered with great sores, all except
for the children of Israel. And he said, I tell you what
else I'm going to do. He said, I'm going to send a
flag through here and I'm going to kill the beast of those Egyptians,
but not one of them are going to die. in the Israelites' camp. So you go through there and the
plagues that went through Egypt, the same thing that's gonna happen
pretty much here. You may remember the hell was
came down and the fire went along the ground, it says, was the
hell was come down. Judgment with fire coming down
upon them. And that's what God's saying
here now. Go empty these bowls, go empty these vials, and you
go out on the earth and you dump them things out. You dump them
out. And I tell you what, they foreshadow
all the manifestations of God's wrath upon the wicked. You keep
Revelation 16. Look over with me in Deuteronomy
28. Look with me in Deuteronomy 28. Here's something that God
says. Oh, look what he says here in
Deuteronomy 28 and verse 16. You know, one side God said,
here's the blessings. On another side He says, here's
the curses. And God said, here's my blessings.
They're in His blessed Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. You don't
come to Christ and you don't believe on Christ, then you're
gonna have the curse. But let me tell you this. You
know how many people have never heard of Jesus Christ? I mean,
it's went to all nations. Every nation, if you know, has
had somebody go preach the gospel to them. But there is people
in America, in these inner cities, and in these places, that they
have never heard the name of Jesus Christ. And if they have,
the only way they use it is a curse name. Use it to blaspheme one
another with, to curse one another with. And I'm telling you, so
you know, that's the people that God has gave up on. There's people
that's never heard Christ, and they'll never hear the voice
of Christ, and still God will judge them. And still He's gonna
punish them. But look what He says here in
verse 16, Deuteronomy 28. Curses shall thou be in thy city,
and curses shall thou be in the field, whether you live in town
or you live out in the country. Curse shall be thy basket and
thy store. You go out and get something
in a basket and you put it in, put it up and you're going to
be cursed for it. Curse shall be the fruit of thy
body and the fruit of thy land, the increase of your flock and
the flocks of your sheep. Curse shall you be when you come
in, curse shall you be when you go out. The Lord shall send upon thee
cursing, vexation, rebuke, and all that thou settest unto thy
hand to do, for to do, until thou be destroyed, until thou
perish quickly, because of the wickedness of thy doings were
by thy house forsaken thee. That sounds pretty bad, don't
it? That sounds pretty bad. And that's what God's saying
here. You take my bowls and you pour them out on these people.
And God has used every part of this universe to punish the wicked. Those who persecute his people,
those who refuse to be warned by the trumpets of judgment,
they're destroyed by the vials of wrath. I'm gonna give you
a perfect illustration of that, and I want you to look with me
in Acts chapter 12. Let me show you, here's where
a trumpet warns people, and yet a vial of wrath is poured out
on Acts chapter 12. Acts chapter 12. And look verse 20. God gave a warning, a trumpet
warning here, but yet to all the people that was here, but
a vial of wrath was poured up out on one. Verse 20, and Herod
was highly displeased with them of Tyre and Sidon. He's a king
now. But they come with him with one accord to him, and having
made Blastus the king's chamberlain, their friend, and desired peace,
because their country was nourished by the king's country. And upon
a set day heard a raving royal apparel, and upon his throne
made an oration unto them. And the people gave a great shout,
saying, it's the voice of a god, not of a man. And immediately,
The angels of the Lord smote him, because he gave not the
gloin, he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost. Now see,
God sent a trumpet to everybody there, but the wrath was poured
out on him. And I tell you, that's what God
does. He pours this wrath out, and he sends a trumpet, and then
all of a sudden, he'll destroy somebody. And then there in verse
two, here's the first, First went out, that first angel went
out and poured his vial out upon the earth. And there was a noisome
and grievous sore upon the men, which had the mark of the beast
upon them which worship his image. And you know when it says a noisome
pestilence fell on them, grievous sores. There's all kinds of ulcers,
leprosy, diseases of the body, diseases of the mind, all kinds
of diseases afflicted the body. And that first bowl, I'll tell
you, was just like in Exodus. I'll tell you, you go through
there. But you know, for believers, this fell upon the people that
had the mark of the beast and worshiped his image. You know,
for believers, this is never gonna happen. The wrath of God's
never gonna be born on us. Because the Scriptures tell us
that all things work together for good to them that love God
and are called according to His purpose. It only affects people
with the mark of the beast, only them and them alone. And I tell
you, remember what that Mark of the Beast was? He had a number,
666, worshiper of men, exalted man, gave man all the glory,
and sent man up to be somebody, just like they did Herod that
day. And then look at the second bowl
when it's poured out in verse three. And the second angel poured
out his vial upon the sea, and it became as the blood of a dead
man. And every living soul died in
the sea. Oh my, God's going to use the
sea here as a judgment. History is subjective. Remember
the Red Sea? Israel went by dry on dry land. But here's this great army with
all their chariots and thousands of Egyptians going after them. They get to one side and then
God calls the water to come down on them and destroy the whole
army. And destroy the whole army, use
the water, the sea to destroy a whole army. And he tell you,
he done that so many times in the scriptures. You remember
when the Titanic, you know, they made this great movie about the
Titanic. That Titanic was an unsinkable ship. They said, there's
no way this thing can sink. Everybody that was in the Bible
had money, they got on that big gold boat. They had the wealthiest
people in the world on it, and they had the poorest people in
the world on it. There were people waiting on
the people that was wealthy. And the wealthy had the great
big cabins, and the poor was down here in little old bitty
places. They danced and drank and had
a big time. This thing cannot sink. But God
said, I'm gonna show you. You can't tell what, you can't
tell anything. You're not dealing with the ocean,
you're dealing with God. You tell us in case something
can't be destroyed, God can destroy anything at any time and any
place. And I tell you, he sucked that thing, and all that mattered
was who was saved and who was lost, who they rescued and who
they didn't. And that's the way it was. God
turns the sea into blood like a man that's dead, and everything
in that sea died. Died, that's what he said. And
I tell you, beloved, here's this old stinking awful, awful thing. Sea disasters warn many, and
sometimes He used to send men into hell. I tell you, there's
no telling how many people and things are in the ocean, how
many people are dead in the ocean. But God said, I'm going to use
the sea. I'm going to get it to trumpet
wind. Now God said, this is over. This
is going to happen. This is going to happen. And
I, do you know what? John Newton was a sea captain. He was over a ship. He was over
a ship for years. One day they had a catastrophe. He was a slave trader. He was
in and out trading slaves. He'd go to Africa and buy a bunch
of slaves and carry them back. And here they are. Well, whoever car that is, what
is it? Black Ford pickup. Hit your button,
you can do it probably from in here. And you know here in the sea,
John Newton, he was in this and he had a shipwreck one time. And they come and caught him,
and you know what they done? They took a big old hook and
wretched got him by the leg, stuck that hook in there and
drug him back out of the water. And he was a slave trader. And
you know what they done with him? They took him right back
to Africa and an African queen put him on a chain. and made
him eat like a dog, like an animal, out of a bone until God saved
him. And God made a mighty preacher
out of him and used him greatly. But all everybody else, you know,
but here it says that everybody in the sea is gonna perish. Every
living soul in the sea is gonna die. Now let's go back over here
and look at the third bone. Third bone, every living soul
died in the sea And the third angel poured out his vial upon
the rivers and fountains of water, and they became blood. You remember
when the rivers was blood in Egypt? God brings curses upon
the rivers and the fountains of water and turns them to blood.
And blood always symbolizes death, death. And you know when God
dries up the waters and they become blood, Let me just give
you an illustration of what's going on. As I just said, it's
not going to rain for three year and a half years. Not going to
see a drop of water. And right now, here in America, the greatest lakes and the greatest
places in this country are dried up. Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, the
great Salt Lake is down now to about the size of a bathtub.
There's a great lake, supposed to be one of the greatest lakes
in the world down in Brazil. It's already dried up. Why is
that? They say it's climate change.
I say it's God. They say the weather's got something
to do with it. God says it's me. Rivers and lakes dry up. God
says, they said, oh, we got to do something about it. God says,
this is everything but God. That's why they're blaspheming
God. God wouldn't do this to people. God's too good to do
this to people. He still can't get people's attention. They still gather in that Mormon
tabernacle. They still go out there and worship
a false god, and they have somebody that sits on his throne and tells
everybody else what to do. And I'll tell you that's if the
angel of the waters, he said, he dries them up. Dries them
up. All God's got to do is just cut
off the water and man's in a bad shape quick. California's dried
up, they ain't got enough water out there to even keep the plants
open to put electricity into people's houses. You think they're
gonna get out on their knees and say, let's get out of that
prayer meeting, let's call on God, let's repent of our sin. No, they're not going to do that.
I'll tell you what we'll do. We'll give us some electric cars
and we won't need water anymore. That's what we'll do. We'll give
us a car to plug in a car. Where are you going to get electricity
for the car if there ain't no water to run the electricity?
People's too stupid to live, I tell you. And you can't fix
stupid. You know that, you just can't
fix it. I tell you what, if people would listen to me, things wouldn't
be such a mess. You know, I'm laughing about
it, but I'm telling you the truth. You look at some of these people
running this place, and the decisions that they make. When this world
is drying up right in front of their eyes, and people ain't
hard, they gotta, you turn your water off today, and these people
get water today, and they'll turn theirs off, and then you'll
get water tomorrow. And they said, I'll tell you
how we'll fix this, we'll start having electric cars. Save the
planet. And God says, I've done this. When I see it, all I see is God's
judgment. But do you think they pay any
attention? No, they don't pay any attention
to that. They just have a big meeting and try to figure out
how we're gonna deal with this. But look what this angel of the
water says now, there in verse five. Look what he says now. I heard the angel of the water
say, Thou art righteous, O Lord. You've done this and you're righteous
about it. Your acts are righteous. Dry
up the rivers, turn them into blood, let men die. Because thou
hast thus judged, this is your judgment. And I tell you what,
and this is what he says, and this is why, they shed the blood
of saints and prophets. And you've given them blood to
drink, for they're worthy. You give them death to drink,
that's what he said. And oh my, and then you remember
over there in Acts, in Revelations 8, when they saw those seven,
and those angels, you know, come out, those people under the altar,
they started crying, and we know Lord, when you avenge the blood
of your saints, Well, here he does. And I heard another out
of the altar saying, even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous
are your judgments. What you do is right. And they
taught what we say, whatever he does is right. Whatever he
does, wherever he does it, it's right. It's right. Now look at
this fourth bowl. I've got to hurry. I've taken
too long. Look at this fourth angel in verse eight. And nine,
the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun. We had the
water, we had the earth, we had the sea, we had the water, and
now we come to the sun. And the fourth angel poured out
his vial upon the sun, and pie was given unto him, scorched
men with fire. Oh, it gets so hot, gets so dry. Men were scorched with this great
heat. God just turned it up, turned
up the heat on them. And blaspheme, what did they
do? They were scorched, they got so hot, and it got so dry,
and the dust, and great heat, and men blasphemed the name of
God. Blasphemed the name of God, which
hath power over these flags. And listen to this, and they
repented not to give him the glory. Just give me the glory.
We ain't gonna do it. We're not gonna do it. I'm not
going to do it. I'm not going to give you the
glory for anything. I'm not going to do it. And the fifth angel
poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast. Oh my. Seat of the beast. And you know
this fifth bowl. You know what the beast is here
and remember this that he was the is anti-christian government,
anti-christian government. Do you know of any place that's
not anti-christian government? Do you know any government anywhere
that's not anti-christ? Could you come up with a government
on the face of this earth anywhere that's not anti-christ? Huh? No, you can't do it. Huh? I think, you know, I'm gonna
take a minute here and just give you my opinion, my thoughts on
this thing. I think the last president that
we had that had any conception of God and fear of God and bowed
before God was Abraham Lincoln. I believe he was our last president
that knew anything about God. They called on God to look to
God and know that he did not have the ability to deal with
things the way they were. I think he is the last one we
had. And that was in the 1860s. And here we are in 2021. And
now we got the lunatics running this island. And oh, look what
this is. You know, this, the beast here
is called, and then look what it says. You know, this is a
center of anti-Christian government. And his kingdom, kingdom, listen
to this, was full of darkness. Oh my, all the kingdoms of the
earth are full of darkness. Darkness. And their tongues,
you know, they'll just use their tongues and they, God will bring
pain on them and they're trying to figure out how to deal with
it, but they can't figure out how to do it. Huh? You know,
when you take the kingdoms of Assyria, in the Old Testament,
Babylon, Rome, Greece, the great empires of the world, they seemed
to think when they fell that the whole world would fall apart.
But it didn't. But it will soon. And I'll tell
you a description of his kingdom. Look what it says there. About
that angel poured out on the beast. And they blasphemed when
this beast, this kingdom was full of darkness. Oh, how dark
is our government. How dark is the people in this
world. And they blasphemed the God of
heaven because of their pains and the things that God sent
their way and their sores. And they repented not of their
deeds. It still ain't gonna give God any glory. And I want you
to notice this now. In verse 12, the sixth bowl poured
out, the sixth bowl of God's wrath was poured out upon the
great river Euphrates. Now Euphrates, let me tell you
something about Euphrates. Where Baghdad is now, that's
Euphrates right there. You know Abraham dwelt right
there where Baghdad is. Babylon was there, where the
great river Euphrates is. And this great new river Euphrates,
God said, I'm going to dry it up. I'm going to dry it up. And
you know why? So that the kings of the earth
will have a dry land to go over. To go over. That the ways of
the kings of the east may be prepared. And look what happens
now. This we're gonna talk about the
battle of Armageddon here for just a minute. And I saw three
unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon,
one came out of the dragon, one come out of the mouth of the
beast, and one come out of the mouth of the false prophet. And
what in the world is he talking about? Do you know this river
represents a path, the wicked world being dried up. In this
battle of Armageddon that he's talking about, he says here in
verse 14, for they are the spirits of devils, working miracles which
goeth forth unto the kings of the earth and the whole world
to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty. This is what they call the Battle
of Armageddon. Let me just give you some illustrations
of how that God comes to the rescue and does save people. In the book of Judges, there
was people come and took over all of Israel. Put all of Israel
in bondage. God raised up a person. God said,
I want one man to deal with this thing. His name was Barak. Barak. And God sent Barak and God delivered
Israel. And you know how He done it?
By sending an angel and destroying them. It's like when Sennacherib
gathered 185,000 soldiers and got them all the way around Jerusalem. Hezekiah was the king. Hezekiah called on God. This
is a type of this. So who in the world is going
to kill this army? God sent an angel through there
and killed 185,000 of them overnight. And that's why they come and
they think that they can fight against God and fight against
God's people, but God always has somebody that's going to
come and destroy those armies. And all these armies are going
to come. All these nations of theirs are going to come, and
they're going to say, we're going to put God out of business once
and for all. We're going to destroy the churches.
We're going to destroy God's people. We're going to destroy
God. All these kings of the earth are gonna get together and say,
you know, the whole problem of our whole global thing is all
these people who trust God. And we're gonna put an end to
it. And then look what our Lord says now. And these unclean spirits,
let me mention these frogs and unclean spirits. Spirits of devils,
working miracles. And their purpose, to gather
men to battle Christ and his people. Frogs of vomitable things,
loathsome things. for satanic hellish ideas, plans,
and projects. You know what the Lord said,
Matthew 24, he says, you know, said the false prophets and the
false Christ would arise and do great wonders and would deceive
the very elect if it was possible. How would you like to listen
to a frog preach to you? That's what these false prophets
and things come out. Spirits of devils, devils. Now
look what our Lord says here now. When all this is going on,
When this great tribulation, all this is going on, our Lord
comes and said, behold, I come as a thief. I come as a thief. That means that he's gonna come
at a time totally, absolutely unexpected. He suddenly appears.
And he says, that man is blessed at watching. He's watching. And
he's keeping his garments. He knows where he got his garments.
He knows what his garments are. They know the righteousness of
Christ. lest he walk naked. When Christ comes, he be naked,
and they see his shame. Oh my. Suddenly, the believer
got, we're diligent, oh my, we're vigilant. We trust in Christ
and his righteousness alone. We don't want our nakedness to
appear. They don't want to see our shame. We certainly don't. We certainly don't. And then
look what he says here. And when this happens, when he
comes, The seventh age, he gathered them under one place called the
Hebrew tongue, Armageddon. Armageddon, oh my. This is gonna
be a great battle. Gonna be a great, great war.
This battle of Armageddon's gonna be a great war. And I'll tell
you something. If you go through Revelations, I give you four
places in Revelations and a place in the Old Testament where it
talks about this battle of Armageddon. Where all they gather here in
Revelation said, all they gather together to come against Christ
and His power. Well, I'll just show you, you
know, let me show you. I've got a minute or two here.
Look over here in Revelation 11, 7, right quick. I want you to see this about
this Look here in verse 7, 17 maybe, yeah. Oh, this is Satan, yeah, this
is Satan here. These have power to shut heaven
that reign not in the days of their prophet, have power over
waters, turn them to blood, smite the earth with plagues as they
will. Oh, that's not what I'm looking for. Well, anyway, let's
go back over here to Seventh Bowl. Let's go back over to Seventh
Bowl. You know, when it talks about
the Battle of Armageddon, there's so many places in here that talks
about it. And when they finally gathered
against Christ to destroy Him that's sitting on His horse,
the Scripture says that God gathers them all, opens up that bottomless
pit, and puts them in it. That's what's going to happen
at the Battle of Armageddon. And that ain't going to be on
this earth. It goes on, right now between God and His Son.
But look at this seventh vial. In verse 17, the seventh angel
poured out his vial into the air. Now we've had the sea, we've
had the land, we've had the earth, we've had the waters and the
rivers, and now we've got the beast, and now the darkness and
our Christian governments, and now look at here. put it out
in the air. And there came a great voice
out of the temple of heaven from the throne saying, it's done,
it's all done, it's finished, it's finished. Oh my, this description
of the final judgment as it turns out, it's done, it's over and
done. And look what happens now. And there were voices and thunderings
and lightnings and there was a great earthquake. You remember
when it says, you know, they'll say, hills and mountains fall
on us, rocks fall on us, to hide us from the wrath of him sets
on the throne. Well, that's what's happening here. There's a great
earthquake, such was not since men was upon the earth. So mighty
an earthquake and so great. And look what happens to that
great city, that great city of Babylon, that great city of Assyria,
that great city of all these cities called the great nations
of the world. And the cities of the nations
fell. And great Babylon came in remembrance
before God to give unto her the cup of the fierceness of the
wrath of God. Every island fled away and the
mountains were not found. I mean, this earth is destroyed
once and for all. Men are perishing. It's out to
curse upon the air. Life on earth perishes as we
know it. And there fell a great hail out
of heaven. About a hundred pounds weight
fell on these men. Fell on them. I mean God's judgment
is going to be awful. Utterly awful. You know everything
is shaken but one kingdom. You know all the earth is shaken
but one kingdom. You know what that kingdom is?
Look in Hebrews 12. And I'll close with this. You
know, men fall apart. Men fall apart, the world falls
apart, babbling with her seduction. The whole world falls apart,
it's destroyed. All they know is the fierceness
of his wrath now. And men still in hell blaspheme
God because of the greatness of the plague and the hardness
of their hearts. Look what it says here, Hebrews 12, 26. whose voice then shook the earth.
But now he hath promised, saying, yet what's more, I shake not
the earth only, but also heaven too. I'm gonna shake everything
gonna be shook up. And this word that God just said,
yet once more signifying the removing of those things that
are shaken. Everything that will be shaken
is going to be took out of the way. Just like we just said,
the mountains fell away, the islands fell away, great earthquake
was all, the earth was destroyed, people perished off the earth.
Yet once more signifying removing those things that are shaken
as of those things that are made. that those which cannot be shaken
may remain. Now what cannot be shaken, that's
the only thing gonna remain. Wherefore we receiving a kingdom
which cannot be moved. While everything else is going
down, down, down, God's destroyed it all. He said, you've got a
kingdom. The only thing that ain't gonna be shaken, the only
thing that ain't gonna be shaken, and the only kingdom that's gonna
last, is the kingdom of God. For cannot be moved, let us have
grace whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and
godly fear. For our God is a consuming fire. Oh my. You know, like I said,
if people ain't gonna pay attention to God, they certainly ain't
gonna pay very little attention to us. And we see evidence of it every
single day. That's why I ain't watched the
news since January. What is this, August? Is this
August? August the 8th? I ain't watched
any news since then. And boy, you see, all I gotta
do is read the Bible and I know what's going on. It's contemporary, ain't it?
And all I, you know what, here's the reason